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Show u g i lirjion bolio io edgeicI oeonoray Wallentlne pointed out that the relative freedom of farmers to take risks and earn a profit or a loss Is the main reason farmers and ranchers were able to ship over $40 billion in farm products abroad this year while other Industries are . fighting foreign competition. A Utah farm leader told a Salt Lake City audience that the election of Ronald Reagan and a Republican controlled U.S. Senate will be meaningless unless people peo-ple in this country stop ask-, ing for so much from government. gov-ernment. Booth Wallentine, executive execu-tive vice president of the Utah Farm Bureau told 350 farmers and ranchers at the organization's annual convention In the Hotel Utah that the only way to put America's bank book In the black Is for citizens to make sacrifices themselves, then demand a tighter rein on government gov-ernment spending. Virtually every segment , of American society has become be-come accustomed to asking for some kind of handout from Washington. Some businessmen demand legislated legis-lated protection from competition, com-petition, laborers want government gov-ernment to enforce unionism, union-ism, government employees demand higher wages which must be financed by borrowings, borrow-ings, and yes, farmers have their subsidies. Ronald Reagan and the sweeping tide of conservatism conserva-tism in America hold out a promise for a return to fiscal fis-cal responsibility If, and only if, Americans are willing to tighten their belts, Improve their productivity, and follow fol-low through with dem ands for more responsible spending by government. : The single most important impor-tant thing individual Americans Ameri-cans can do to turn this country around Is to improve, our productivity, to become real competitors again. I . refuse to believe the Japanese Jap-anese or the Germans or any other country can produce pro-duce more efficiently than we can, If we will put our heart into it. |